That was my first guess.

There are ways of keeping children away from both parents that do not involve incarcerating them. Her choice of incarceration means that her primary motive was to punish them. That is what incarceration is for. If her primary motive was to keep the children away from both parents, she would have made a different…

My partner and I had to do a marriage preparation course IN THE YEAR 2015 that was based entirely on Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. Like, to the point where they referred to us as “Martians” and “Venutians” the whole day in their super sexist statements, e.g., “OK, we’re about to talk about finances now.…

Right? That is, like, a really big vacation! It sounds fun, but if I can take 10 days off, I can go on a huge trip to anywhere.

Right? Like, I would maybe call them “disruptive”? Possibly “jerks,” or “assholes” if I was feeling real mean. Definitely not a racial slur though.

I am chiming in way late, but I had to tell a friend that her husband had cheated on her recently, and I opted to do it with the caveat that I would never bring it up to her again and would put it out of my mind entirely unless she asked me to do differently. So I started with a blunt, “I have to tell you something,…

As far as I know, they’re not, unless they receive funding to do so. Public schools are, but also the state is obligated to fund them for those accommodations (obviously that often works better in theory than in practice).

If you weren’t starting every chapter with song lyrics that demonstrated how cool and angsty you were, you weren’t doing it right!

What she’s saying is that, in their rush to be anti-gun (which is fine, and I agree with) people are being dismissive of a woman who felt threatened by a man who was persistently harassing her. It’s one thing to say, “Look I get that that was scary because it’s not OK when men do that, but I still don’t feel that guns…

Nobody shot anyone in this story.

OH MY GOD I ALSO WROTE NEWSIES FANFICTION!

What a perfect and succinct way of summing up why this is so aggravating! Yes, exactly; America has some good and some bad, and we can dispute how much of each until we are blue in the face, but anyone claiming that America is astoundingly perfect OR astoundingly awful is engaging in some kind of exceptionalism.…

You don’t always pick your co-parent. Sometimes you pick a sexual partner with no intention of co-parenting and then accidents happen. Sometimes you realize while pregnant that this person would be a terrible co-parent. Sometimes the courts order you to share custody even when you know the other person will be the…

I think that polls show that American Catholics are basically the same as the rest of the nation in views about premarital sex, birth control, and homosexuality. It’s like, 82% of the nation thinks premarital sex is fine, and 78% of Catholics do. Something like that. I don’t feel like actually pulling up my research…

I just actually checked my body for a diamond shape near my nipples.

Yeah I worked in a Catholic school (a really progressive one, to be fair) that had the best sex ed program I’ve ever seen! They did have the chaplain on hand to periodically be like, “The Church would prefer that you not have sex until marriage,” but it was always couched like that - “the Church would prefer,” rather…

Obviously we romanticized it heavily and assumed that everyone wanted something from him, and he could never find a person around whom he could just be. But then none of us got to be the star of the story, because it was my boyfriend’s roommate’s girlfriend (who was by all accounts really lovely, although I only met…

Can I take this opportunity to tell a weird and relevant story?

When the photo of the floaties popped up on my instagram with the caption “Swan Squad,” I had a brief flash of anger because MANY OF THOSE ARE NOT SWANS WHAT THE HELL? Then I had to calm down and acknowledge that possibly the flamingos and unicorns didn’t mind being on the Swan Squad.

Yeah, I mean, I’d argue that the creepy guy who was always trying to trick her into kissing him or trying to sneak a peek at her hooking up with her actual boyfriends was treating her way worse than the guy who got annoyed with her when she was being fairly annoying. But I kind of liked that Jackie was an…